Before the chapter starts, I would like to say thank you to the following people for suggesting names in the last chapter.

LoliZ321

Kingkid

Irina-Akashira

Baconlord

last but not least, Beldarath

thank you for taking your time to suggest a name for us. And I hope that all of you continue liking this story.

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I left the angry Anko alone. She is gonna suffer the consequences for almost using me as a guinea pig MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Before I forget, I gotta mention some things first.

I teleported to my shadow clone, that was being led by Konan to the Akatsuki hideout. They must have a way for me to get stronger. Even though I am strong, not as strong as those freaks like Isabella and the alien.

Before I left, I planted a seal on my blood puppet that is gonna be staying in the leaf village. He is gonna be taking my place until I am gone. The seal is my tracker seal, so the girls don’t realize that I am gone, and they don’t follow me.

I cannot risk giving the blood puppet such an important mission to infiltrate the Akatsuki hideout, that is why I am personally going there.

The other puppet is going to a desolate part in the elemental nations. I copied down all the information of the maps from the library, and the Hokage’s residence.

I don’t know if this place exists in the anime, but there is an unexplored area in the elemental nations. It’s big, and it is supposedly covered by mountains.

There have been a lot of people adventuring in this part of the map, only to never return. And there isn’t a good reason to conquer this place, it’s filled with rocks and stones, there isn’t even a hint of anything valuable there.

And it’s not worth going to war either. So everyone decided that it was best if it was left out.

The clone has yet to tell me if it's a suitable location for us to stay there.

When I teleported to my shadow clone, Konan sensed someone appear. She had yet to realize that the one who she had captured, was my shadow clone.

I immediately dispelled my shadow clone, and I was now alone here with her.

She looked at me for a second, but didn’t think much of it and we continued walking.

We could dash and we might make it there faster, but she wants to make sure I am not up to anything suspicious during our time heading to the hideout.

It was still a long way to get there, and it might take a few more hours to get there. So let’s check how the current situation is going in the leaf village.

Gaara and his siblings had yet to have a trial. The leaf village need to hear their side of the story before they could come up with a verdict.

Those three were innocent, so there is no way that they are going to jail for being set up.

Gaara’s real father, had planted on him a seal on his back so that he could use the 1-tails power on an enemy. But who would have known that the Akatsuki would use this to their advantage later on.

That is why Gaara went on a rampage. He was forced to do it.

The new Hokage has been appointed, Tsunade. It was a bit of a difficult choice to make between Hina Hyuuga, or Tsunade Senju. But Hina didn't want to waste too much time on this, as a possible war could happen anytime soon, so she chose to back out and let Tsunade become the Hokage.

The only reason why Hina wanted to fight Tsunade for the seat of the Hokage, is because Sarutobi sacrificed his life for her. She thought she could repay him for what he done for her, but she saw the bigger picture and let Tsunade be the Hokage.

Dom has yet to return. It's been like ages since we have seen him. And he is a worst teacher than Kakashi ever was, just what in the world did he do for his students. Nothing! At least Kakashi trained Sasuke.

Everyone else, including my blood puppet were cleaning up the mess after the ambush ended.

And there is no sign of Sasuke anywhere. Where could he have gone off to?

I didn't want to make the same mistake again, so I planted a tracking seal and teleportation seal in everyone I knew. That way I will know when someone is about to die, or got kidnapped.

Nobody ever suspected my blood puppet to be a fake. Which is good.

It was kinda hard conversing with Luna or Kat. But when the time comes, we will once again talk like we always did.

Everyone is fine and healthy. Let's see what Haku is doing right now.

Haku couldn't find his teacher anywhere. Isabella had forgotten about her student she just took. The teachers in this world suck, except Chris, and maybe Asuma is an exception. As for Iruka, meh.

{HAKU POV}

I didn't know that my sensei would have left me like that. She would always like to wander around, she didn't like to have anything to tie her down.

Although I call her ‘sensei’ she hasn't taught me much. My Kekkei Genkai is my greatest strength, and even sensei doesn't have any idea on how to control it.

I met her a few weeks after Chris took me away to some village.

I missed Zabuza, but there is nothing I could do about it. This is a world where only the strong survive, while the weak die.

And not even Zabuza was strong enough to defeat two ninjas from Konoha. They are terrifying indeed.

I will not hold a grudge against Konoha, as we were the ones who came looking for them to cause trouble in the first place. But in the end, we lost the fight, and were actually nothing but guinea pigs to the Akatsuki.

When I met my sensei, I was in deep trouble after some bandits mistook me for a girl.

I was somehow cursed to have a face of a beautiful girl. It's no wonder that I was always looked weirdly by other men and girls. Which sucks.

When sensei saw me, she immediately took me in as her own student.

She said I was the perfect student for her. I had nothing or no one to tie me down either, and I was ‘and I quote’ “cute…”

After I told her that I am a male, she had a hard time believing it as well.

She found out about my gender when she accidentally saw me peeing on the toilet on a bathroom in a inn we stayed in.

That was the most embarrassing day of my life.

But I didn't expect that Isabella would just laugh when she saw it. Not because it was small, but because she thought that I was a girl this whole time, and lied to her for some reason…

She laughed so hard that night. I didn't. I had a hard time facing her directly for an entire week.

Although sensei hasn't taught me how to control my Kekkei Genkai, she has taught me a lot of other things.

Such as fuinjutsu, body movements, and that's it.

I already knew how to fight from Zabuza, and learned a lot about weapons from him. There isn't another person alive who is more knowledgeable in weapons like him.

But now I guess I am a temporary citizen of Konoha. When my teacher returns, we will probably set off to another long journey together.

I like her adventures, they're fun and challenging at the same time.

And no one doubted my identity, as my teacher is the strongest sage herself.

A few days ago, we accidentally heard news that a Hyuuga lady with an incurable disease, was fully healed. Her name is Hina Hyuuga.

When we heard this, we ran like hell these past few days to Konoha.

Sensei told me about her mission to help her friend, and now she possibly only had a few months to live. Now that her friend is healed, she can finally see her again.

We were far away from the village, so it took us very long to get there in such a few days.

When we had arrived, we saw something terrifying. A kid, fighting a creepy creature.

He had just cut down an alien in half, along with a mountain and a whole terrain. The entire area was divided in two whole parts.

I have never seen such strength before, and I used to think that Zabuza was strong before. He doesn't compare to this kid at all.

That is until the alien somehow attached its two parts together, and it almost killed the kid.

He transformed right in front of our very eyes. We couldn't do anything, we were both shocked entirely.

Before the alien could do anything to the kid, my sensei ordered me to get him away form the alien.

I didn't have confidence fighting that thing, but I had my sensei with me.

And yet, I was somehow able to get the kid away from danger.

I didn't recognize him at first, because I looked at him from a distance. But upon closer look, he is the exact same kid I met at the land of waves.

It's been like two months, and he is a bigger monster than when I last saw him.

But I didn't think of anything else but to get us to safety.

I didn't hold a grudge against him, or hated him. It's better if I just moved on, and not make an enemy out of him.

After that, here I am.

I am currently wandering around the village. I helped with some of the rebuilding, and that's it. There isn't much me to do here.

Then I saw something very familiar, on a window outside of a weapons shop.

Zabuza’s sword. The Kubikiribocho.

After Chris had brought me to a different village, I somehow managed to find myself back to the land of waves.

I saw Zabuza’s body lying there on the ground. He had already started decomposing.

I dragged his body and buried him. He deserved a proper burial. The only thing that I had yet to compete his tomb, was by giving his sword back.

I had searched for that sword for months, only to finally find it here on display.

I am not gonna steal it from the owner of this place. This is sensei’s home village, and I need to respect that.

I had no idea what this guy wanted in exchange for the sword, but hopefully it is within my range of capabilities.

When I entered, I saw that the whole place was a mess.

Weapons scattered all across the place, and even broken walls and furniture all around the area.

It looks like even this shop wasn't spared from the disaster that happened earlier today.

No one was here at all. Did the owners abandon this place?

“Hello.” (Haku)

I called out to the store, incase someone was inside the store.

When I didn't hear anything, I went to Zabuza's sword and took it off the shelf.

I am not gonna steal it, I just want to see if it has been taken care of this whole time.

This is Zabuza’s sword, and therefore I see this sword as if it were Zabuza himself.

I carefully inspected it, and was relieved when the sword was fine. It hasn't been mistreated in any way, in fact, it was in a better condition than I thought.

Zabuza had a deep understanding in swords and other weapons. Zabuza knew that one day he would die, and that his sword would be passed down to me.

So he taught me how to wield swords so that I can use the sword to its full potential. And he taught me everything there is to know about weapons.

But the sword didn’t go to me, as Chris took it.

THIRD PERSON POV

And Haku doesn’t have the physique to carry such a heavy weapon. He has the body of a female, so naturally his body is not engineered to wield such a heavy weapon.

That is why he uses needles and his Kekkei Genkai instead of heavy weapons. Although Zabuza had taught him to use weapons, he never got a chance to, and therefore his knowledge for using weapons has been slowly fading away.

“Who are you?!” (TenTen) said as she pointed a long Katana towards Haku behind his back.

TenTen knew that this ambush would have happened, so she kept that sword in her scrolls so that it wouldn’t get stolen.

Her father isn’t that strong, so he was also led to a safe place outside of Konoha, that is where most of the citizens were when the ambush happened.

TenTen left the sword there to display it to the public after the fight ended. But who would have thought that somebody had the gut to steal it from her.

She hasn’t met Haku, so she didn’t know that he is Isabella’s student, and a friend of Naruto and the others.

TenTen was ordered by the Hokage to forge more weapons incase if a war were to happen. That is why she didn’t hear Haku enter her shop.

If it wasn’t because she had trained her awareness with Chris, then she wouldn’t have been able to sense Haku at all.

“I am just a wonderer." (Haku) said. He saw no reason for TenTen to point a sword at him, because he was only inspecting the sword and that’s it.

“What the hell are you doing with my Kubikiribocho?” (TenTen) said angrily.

That sword is how she met Chris, so how could she not be angry at him for trying to take it away from her.

“I am just looking at it. This sword was wielded by my father, Zabuza of the hidden mist.” (Haku)

It’s usually a bad idea if someone were to admit that they were related to a criminal like Zabuza, but he didn’t care, Zabuza was the one who protected up till this time. He was even glad to mention that he knew Zabuza.

“Your father?! I don’t believe you.” (TenTen)

She was a bit surprised that somebody would mention that they were related to Zabuza, but he could be lying so that he instill fear in her.

And what is there to fear. Zabuza is already dead, so what can he do?

“It’s true. Zabuza taught me a lot about the Kubikiribocho and its uses.” (Haku)

“Yeah right! If you really were Zabuza's child, then he should have taught you a lot about the sword. Am I right?” (TenTen)

He could be telling the truth, or he isn't. The only way to find out is if Haku does indeed know a lot about swords and such.

Zabuza was considered as a master swordsman among the elemental nations. So his understanding of weapons must have reached a high level.

And if Haku was taught by him, then he should know a lot about weapons.

If he was lying, then she has every right to fight him right here, for trying to steal the sword.

And even if Haku does steal the sword, he wouldn't get very far.

TenTen was taught a lot of fuinjutsu skills by Chris this past month. So she naturally had placed some seals on the Kubikiribocho incase someone did try to steal it.

She wasn't stupid enough to leave it outside on display for nobody to guard it. She just wanted to increase the shop’s awareness so that she would rake in a little bit more money.

And the Kubikiribocho isn't for sale. No matter how high they offer for it, she would never sell it.

This sword is the sole reason that she met Chris, and selling that sword is like selling the relationship they both have.

Although Chris had rejected her, she still holds feelings for him, and probably always will.

Back on topic.

“Juzu Biwa wielded the blade with great brutality during his time as one of the seven ninja swordsman of the most…” (Haku) explained everything he knew to TenTen.

(I skipped most of the lecture because it was boring, and I don't have that much knowledge on swords)

Haku had told her everything there is about the KubikiriBocho, and also a lot of stuff that most weapon masters don't even know.

Haku and Zabuza had travelled a lot, so he had learned from various teachers as well. The same thing goes for Isabella too.

Hearing everything that he knows, TenTen was indeed shocked. Haku didn't look that much older than her, and he shouldn't even know most of this stuff from reading books.

Even she was unaware of most of this stuff. She thought that it was a lie on his part, but thought so otherwise, the knowledge he had was even a bit higher level than her.

It's only natural for Haku to learn about weapons. He doesn't have the body to use heavy weapons like Zabuza, and he disliked killing. And weapons are used for killing others.

That is why he uses his needles, because they don't kill others, but it could be used to heal others like, acupuncture and such.

TenTen is very creative and likes to forge and create weapons, so her knowledge is very good with weapons, but it's almost as good as Haku’s knowledge.

But there is a difference between their knowledge.

TenTen had learned how to wield every single weapon, even if ordinary people can't use it, she will always have a way to use every single weapon.

Haku's knowledge is mostly about the people who created weapons, or those who made a name of themselves in history.

Although his knowledge is above TenTen, his fighting knowledge and experience with weapons is far beneath TenTen’s.

“Even if you know a lot about weapons, that still doesn't give you the right to steal my Kubikiribocho. I am sorry for your loss, but you cannot take the sword.” (TenTen)

He has proved that he is indeed knowledgeable in weapons, so she’ll let him off with a warning.

And besides, it isn't that common for people her age to be so knowledgeable in weapons.

And he looked like a nice person, so nothing much to say there.

(She has yet to realize that Haku is actually a guy.)

“Does this sword mean a lot to you, or are you keeping it because of its popularity?” (Haku)

This sword meant a lot more to him than just its name. Unless if this sword is special to TenTen, like it is to him, then he will never leave it on her hands.

“Someone that I admire… and like, gave me this sword. If I were to give this weapon away, it will be like I don't like him anymore, and that my relationship with him is worth nothing more than a few measly Ryo.” (TenTen) stated very clearly.

Hearing this, Haku was indeed surprised. He had the same thought as TenTen.

Those who see their possessions as nothing more than money, they don't deserve to keep it. The memories Haku shared with Zabuza were priceless.

He then gave a light bow to her, and said.

“Sorry I touched your sword without permission. I'll be taking my leave then, farewell… Umh! Sorry, I don't believe we have introduced ourselves.” (Haku)

Haku then stretched his hand to TenTen.

“I'm Haku of the Yuki clan, what's your name?” (Haku)

“I'm TenTen!” (TenTen)

(I'll add in her last name after the poll. I didn't think I would need her last and sooner than I thought, lol.)

“Nice to meet you, farewell. *grumble*” (Haku)

As he was about to leave, his stomach made a growling noise. He hasn't eaten anything all day, as he had been looking for his sensei this morning, helped out a bit with the damage, and had to give a lecture about his knowledge of swords.

He didn't have time to eat anything today.

Haku had a flushed face. Although he wanted people to see him as a man, his actions made people around him have a hard time believing he was a dude.

“I am hungry too, so let's eat somewhere else. I am not a cook, so let's eat in a place where it hasn't been destroyed.” (TenTen)

TenTen was still dirty from forging weapons, so her clothes were dirty as well. Even if she is wearing an apron and gloves, the mess of creating weapons is too much.

“I'll be right back.” (TenTen) went upstairs to change into other clothes.

She would have showered, but she would be dirty again later when she is gonna forge more weapons.

And she could use this time to her advantage to learn more about the history of weapons. Haku’s lecture peaked TenTen’s curiosity.

Before Haku could say anything, TenTen left the room.

He was a bit hungry, and didn't have money on him. And there is no reason for him to say no to TenTen’s request.